Dear all,

welcome to join Biocenter Day next week on Wednesday, April 27 in Leena Palotie Auditorium, Aapistie 5A.

BIOCENTER OULU DAY 2022

Miraculous matter: Recent advances in neuroscience

Time: Wednesday April 27, 2022 at 8.30-16.10

Place: Leena Palotie Auditorium 101A in the Main Building of the Medical Campus,

University of Oulu, Oulu, Finland

Chairpersons: Aleksi Sutinen and Abhishek Singh

PROGRAMME

Session 1: Glial cells in brain homeostasis

08.30-08.40 Opening remarks Chairperson of the Organizing Committee, Biocenter Oulu

08.40-08.50 Welcome Prof. Johannes Kettunen, Director of Focus Institute Biocenter Oulu

08.50-09.25 Šárka Lehtonen, UEF, FIN

“Role of glial cells in Parkinson’s Disease”

09.25-10.00 Julia Edgar, University of Glasgow, UK “Oligodendrocytes in axonal health’”

10.00-10.05 10x Genomics, Jouni Rantanen

10.05-10.45     Coffee at the exhibition area

Session 2: Novel Approaches in Neurodegeneration

10.45-10.50 Promega, Rasmus Sörensen

“Maxwell – your tool for perfect nucleic acid purification”

10.50-11.25 Vesa Kiviniemi, UO, FIN

“Novel Imaging Techniques in Alzheimer’s disease Research”

11.25-12.45 Lunch break and exhibition

Session 3: Brain Clearance Pathways

12.45-12.55 Finnadvance, Prateek Singh

12.55-13.30 Roxana Carare, University of Southampton, UK

“Role of extracellular-matrix in brain clearance”

13.30-14.00 Coffee at the exhibition area

14.00-14.35 Iben Lundgaard, Lund University, SWE

“Brain wide clearance system-Glymphatic System”

Session 4: Neurodegenerative Disorders and Therapeutic Interventions

14.35-15.15 Heikki Tanila, UEF, FIN

“Recent advances in Alzheimer’s Disease Research”

15.15-15.55 Mart Saarma, University of Helsinki, FIN

“Neurotrophic Factors and their therapeutic applications”

15.55-16.10 General discussion and concluding remarks